Onondaga Lake Listed as a Superfund Site by the US Environmental Protection Agency

In 1994, Onondaga Lake was officially listed as a Superfund Site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This was the result of over a hundred years of pollution and desecration of the lake, as discussed above, years 1884-1986. For background, in 1980 the U.S. Congress established the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), informally referred to as Superfund. This allows EPA to clean up contaminated places and forces the responsible polluters to perform the cleanup or pay the U.S. government for EPA-led cleanup work. See 2024 on the timeline below.